Scale emerged when humans’ senses exceeded their immediate capacity to interpret them. This splitting didn’t occur until after the Copernican Revolution in the 16th century. Previously, the human senses sufficed to provide a measure of the world, but then new instruments like the ruler and the drawing compass, together with the telescope and microscope “led to the divorce of the human senses from reality while substituting incommensurability and immeasurability…” (Dvořák and Parikka 2021, 49).